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Working Title: Program Officer for Shared Print Initiatives, HathiTrust

Department: HathiTrust

Title/University Classification:Senior Associate/Librarian or Academic And/Or Research Program Officer Senior/Intermediate

Hours/Week: 40

Posting ends: September 30, 2015

Five-year term position


The full posting, including application instructions, can be found at Program Officer for Shared Print Initiatives, HathiTrust

 

How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position, include your salary requirements, and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.  

 

Job Summary

 

HathiTrust Digital Library has an opportunity for a collaborative, creative, and service-focused individual to direct the establishment of a distributed shared print monographs archive corresponding to the HathiTrust collection. HathiTrust is a growing partnership of research and academic libraries that are working together to ensure permanent access to the record of human knowledge. Founded in 2008, HathiTrust includes more than 110 members worldwide, who together support a certified trusted digital repository holding 13.7 million digitized volumes, including 6.8 million unique monographic titles. The HathiTrust Research Center, based at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University, develops and offers services supporting advanced computational research using the HathiTrust collections. The Shared Print Monograph Archiving Initiative is one of several that HathiTrust members have endorsed as a key strategic program. This will be a large scale, transformative program of HathiTrust, requiring a leader with creativity, experience, and credibility in the academic library community.  The successful candidate will be mission and service driven, thrive on complex, multi-partner environments, and capable of defining a shared vision for this program. The ideal candidate for this position wants to help chart the future of research libraries and have a lasting impact on the future stewardship of the print record.   For more information about the program, visit:  https://www.hathitrust.org/print_monograph_archiving.

 

The Program Officer for Shared Print Initiatives develops and executes HathiTrust’s Shared Print Monograph Archiving Initiative. The Program Officer drives the development of strategy and policy, recruits participating archives and libraries, and defines member services that will result in the program’s success.  The Program Officer will develop a fully-fledged business and implementation plan to secure long-term print retention commitments for monographic titles found in the HathiTrust collections.  The Program Officer will be expected to develop partnerships with archives, libraries, vendors, and other stakeholders, and will work closely with all HathiTrust staff to achieve the goals of the program and HathiTrust as a whole.

 

Note: This is a five-year position at the University of Michigan that will report to the Executive Director.  The Program Officer is an employee of the University of Michigan, and operates within the rules and policies of the University of Michigan. Relocation to Ann Arbor, MI is desirable but not required.

 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

 

Required Qualifications

 

Desired Qualifications

 

Additional Information

Benefits, rank, salary

 

Appointment is anticipated as an academic and/or research program officer, or a senior associate librarian or librarian. Salary and rank dependent on the candidate's qualifications and experience. Librarian appointments carry with them increased expectations regarding professional development, professional engagement, research, and service, in keeping with the library's process for librarian promotion and advancement.

 

The University of Michigan offers excellent benefits and wellness opportunities.

 

This position receives 24 days of vacation a year, and 15 days of sick leave a year with provisions for extended benefits, as well as opportunities for professional development and travel. TIAA-CREF and Fidelity Investments retirement options available.

 

 

Application Deadline

Review of applications will be begin October 1 and continue until the position is filled.

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